दरवेश

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَرْویش (darwēš), from Middle Persian dlgwš (driyōš). First attested in c. 1611 as Middle Hindi دَرْویش (drvyś /⁠darveś⁠/). Doublet of ध्रिगु (dhrigu, “needy”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /d̪əɾ.ʋeːʃ/, [d̪ɐɾ.ʋeːʃ], /d̪əɾ.weːʃ/, [d̪ɐɾ.weːʃ]
• Rhymes: -eːʃ
• Hyphenation: दर‧वेश

Adjective

दरवेश • (darveś) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling دَرْویش) (rare)

1. poor

   Synonyms: दरिद्र (daridra), रंक (raṅk), ग़रीब (ġarīb)

2. unworldly

   Synonyms: वैरागी (vairāgī), बैरागी (bairāgī)

Noun

दरवेश • (darveś) m (formal plural दरवेशान or दरावीश, Urdu spelling دَرْویش) (rare)

1. a beggar; faqir

   Synonyms: भिखारी (bhikhārī), भिक्षु (bhikṣu), भिक्षुक (bhikṣuk), याचक (yācak), फ़क़ीर (faqīr)

2. poor

   Synonyms: दरिद्र (daridra), रंक (raṅk), ग़रीब (ġarīb)

3. (Islam) Dervish; dervish

   Synonym: ध्रिगु (dhrigu)

4. (by extension, Ahmadiyya) Darvesh (one of the 313 darvesh of Qadian)

Declension

Declension of दरवेश (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दरवेश darveś	दरवेश darveś
oblique	दरवेश darveś	दरवेशों darveśõ
vocative	दरवेश darveś	दरवेशो darveśo

Derived terms

• दरवेशी (darveśī, “doctrine or way of life of dervish; poverty”)

Further reading

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “दरवेश”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975), “दरवेश”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. “Sea of Hindi words”] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha
• “दरवेश”, in Hindwi Dictionary [including the languages of Hindi region] (in Hindi), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026
• “दरवेश”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “درويش”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 305
• Platts, John T. (1884), “درويش”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 514
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “दरवेश”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 624
• John Shakespear (1834), “दरवेश”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 854